Tag: error
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Is Gene Smith turning in his grave?
I write this entry in mid-May in a pretty agitated state of mind. I am posting this in September because posting it in May might have burnt a bridge for me professionally. I also wanted to see if the anger I felt back in May subsided. It has not and so I am burning a
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Failure is a requirement
I have been thinking about failure recently. What first comes to my mind when I say that word is the phrase, “failure is not an option.” NASA engineers made that line famous during the nearly disastrous Apollo 13 space flight. The phrase and its very focused message have long since entered our collective body of
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The importance of portfolio review events (part two)
In the first part of this two-part posting, I explained the basics of organized portfolio review events. Today, I am writing to share some of the things I learned having been on both sides of the portfolio-reviewing table, as a reviewer and a review-ee. Many (but not all) of the errors I allude to are